Communities of Practice
Communities of Practice are dynamic groups associated by communication and learning processes which are dedicated to issues of joined interest. The sharing of knowledge is the essential process constituting a Community of Practice. With regard to the application of space technology for disaster management, it is likewise a core task within the UN-SPIDER programme. Accordingly, UN-SPIDER aims at fostering Communities of Practice of any kind, as far as their issues are related to the intersection of disaster management and space-based information.
UN-SPIDER Workshops and Technical Advisory Missions provide an environment where disaster management practitioners meet space experts as well as each other, thus offering the organisational platform on which Communities of Practice can be founded and developed further by way of personal contact.
Regarding the ICT support to the Communities of Practice's continuous activities in the way of knowledge transfer and social learning, the UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal provides the web-based platform for spontaneous communication and quality-assured content generation and transfer.
Communities of Practice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ad hoc Haiti Geospatial Cooperation Task Group | At the UNGIWG 10th Plenary Meeting which took place in Bonn, Germany from 19- 21 October 2009 it was agreed that UNGIWG activities would be carried out through Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and time... |
| Expert Group on Capacity Building | Capacity-building and the strengthening of institutional arrangements at all levels are the key to increasing the ability of organizations and individuals to effectively access and use space-based... |
| SPIDER Global Thematic Partnership | In recent years the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) of the United Nations and other organizations have reiterated the fact that the number of disasters and corresponding economic... |
| SPIDER Latin America and Caribbean Thematic Partnership | La Red Temática SPIDER para Latino América y el Caribe (RT-SPIDER-LAC) se ha establecido en el contexto de la Plataforma Temática Global SPIDER para proveer asesoría... |
Comments
CoP effectiveness
CoP would be fairly effective to bring together those that are in regions without RSO's. (see my related comments on these on "Building Capacity in a Third World" in the "expert group for capacity building". Effective CoP in a region could spark unified efforts to create RSO's that are required but either generally unheard of or de-prioritised in the region.
Umesh RS
IT Process, Architecture and Audit
South Africa